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What is it with the democrats that they think they need to enable her the power over them? This is entirely Speaker Reid's fault. Someone needs to call a "time-out" and get the democrats into a huddle where they can get on the same page. Who is allowing this? Reid. The sooner he is asked to step down the better. Is anyone running against him in 2010? I sure hope so. We need to get behind this person.
Passing any bill without a public option is not a "win". It is actually a LOSS, and we will prove that when election time comes if a public option is not part of health reform.
Bipartisan means nothing without a public option.
No public option = no reelection.
So no fine if you don't buy insurance, but with every month that passes the more it is like reform never happened for those who opt out; less subsidy, higher premiums, and after a year, they have to prove they don't need insurance to be able to buy it, just like now. So they can choose not to participate and only hate themselves when they inevitably go bankrupt.
Or maybe I'm giving them too much credit.
I'm not sure who the administration advisers are insulting more; the President and administration for ceding such power to the Empress; the Blue Dogs for being such Empress-whipped wimps, or the public for expecting them to buy into this bullshit.
Weak, weak, weak. Fire your advisers Mr. President, they are making you look like an ineffectual wimp who can't even influence the Blue Dog members of his party into passing legislation that contains that robust public option you supposedly want, even though you appear unable to lift a finger to fight for it. Strange that you have no problem ceding your power of persuasion to someone who wants nothing more than to kill it.
Four-eight years of administration-appointed conservative Senate Emperors and Empresses dictating so-called Democratic legislation. You can't get any more capitulating than that. Wake me up when this political nightmare is over.
Months have past, and we've had to endure a platform for every gun toting, Nazi loving kook in the country. To what ends?
So Obama can claim some bizarre sort of bipartianship of 1. Not to mention the health care bill still would have passed the committee quite comfortabley without Snowes vote. We have wasted time, energy, and money......any figures on how much these town meetings cost and who exactly paid for them yet?
The charade of a "public option" continues with some democrats saying they support it and will not vote for a bill without it, some democrats saying they don't support it, and what does Obama say? Well that depends on what day you ask him.
God forbid Obama use that "great intellect" of his, you know, the one that is always playing chess and it's several steps ahead of us mere mortals. Why doesn't he use it and actually LEAD. This endless nurse maiding and hand holding of republicans is sickening.
You campaigned on a platform of change Mr. Obama, something about change we can believe in?
Who knew all that would change after the election sir, would be you?
COMMON CENTS
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Actually, the only objective of the Republicans is to prove for all time what total, absolute jerks and enemies of the American they are. They can't win. Therefore, they are recording for all history what hateful, bigoted turkeys they are. Then again, given how craven Reid is, there is a real chance that if they yell loudly enough and are hateful enough they might scare him into running screaming out of the halls of Congress and drowning himself in the Potomac.
We have to continue to make it clear that a trigger on the public option does not in any way make it competitive against private insurers, and that we're not going to fall for that as a "public option" in any shape or form whatsoever.
It's why we need our progressives in Congress to continue to stay strong on their insistence that the final conference bill NOT have a triggered public option, but a public option that is competitive nationwide. We're going to be hearing a lot of drum-beating about the Snowe trigger in the days ahead, so please don't let up on those phone calls to our progressives with these talking points below!
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?ContentID=161&ParentID=0&SectionID=4&SectionTree
=4&lnk=b&ItemID=159
(Basically, YES, TO THE ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION (MEDICARE PLUS 5%) -- NO TRIGGER, NO CO-OPTS, NO OPT-OUT!)
Hi [Representative's Name]. I want to thank you for supporting the public option, but I don't want you to support a trigger or the state opt-in proposal for the public option! A trigger on the public option would be a surrender to the private insurance companies. Please don't let the insurance lobbyists win by allowing a trigger on the public option, or by allowing states to opt-in to the public option. I want a national public option that's available in all states immediately without an opt-out, an opt-in, or a trigger. I also don't support co-operatives as an alternative to the public option since the CBO have said they will do nothing to lower costs of private insurance premiums. If the bill doesn't have a public option to control premium costs, please vote against that bill!